Indian work [electronic resource] : language and livelihood in Native American history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.

By: Usner, Daniel HContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: 202 p. : illSubject(s): Indians of North America -- Economic conditions | Indians of North America -- Employment | Indians of North America -- Public opinion | Whites -- Relations with Indians | Public opinion -- United States | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Social policy | United States -- Economic policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 330.9730089/97 LOC classification: E98.E2 | U85 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index.

Introduction: The pursuit of livelihood and the production of language -- Inventing the hunter state : Iroquois livelihood in Jeffersonian America -- Narratives of decline and disappearance : the changing presence of American Indians in early Natchez -- The discourse over poverty : Indian treaty rights and welfare policy -- Perceptions of authenticity and passivity : Indian basket making in post-Civil War Louisiana -- Primitivism and tourism : Indian livelihood in D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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